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Ice climber rides Vail's famous Fang 100 feet when the pillar collapses
On January 12 a climber from Alma, Colorado, was severely injured when the Fang, a famous ice climb in the Vail amphitheater, collapsed. The climber, age 34, was attempting the freestanding pillar in lean conditions.
On January 12 a climber from Alma, Colorado, was severely injured when the Fang, a famous ice climb in the Vail amphitheater, collapsed. The climber, age 34, was attempting the freestanding pillar in lean conditions.
According to Jason Beaupre, who was visiting from New York and was at the amphitheater hoping to try the nearby Rigid Designator, the entire Fang broke, and the climber fell at least 100 feet. Seven other climbers were present at the scene. Despite the large amount of ice that crashed down, no one else was injured.
According to Beaupre, the belayer was a certified EMT and he assessed and stabilized the climber, who lay on top of large blocks of ice. Friends and family requested that the climber's name not be used in this report. As of January 14, he remained in critical condition.
After the accident, a storm of speculation echoed across the Internet as pundits weighed in on whether it was reasonable or foolish to climb the Fang on that particular day. Two climbers, including the author of the region's guidebook, speculated that the pillar was not yet safe to climb. It was, as one wrote, fully one or two weeks off. Other posters leveled personal insults, characterizing the climber as super-ultra-mega-extremo or just very impatient. Scott Smith, the owner of a local guide service was quoted as telling the Summit Daily News that not many people, if any, had climbed the Fang this winter.
In reading the comments, it would appear that this accident was caused by poor judgment. Yet, several people had led the Fang without incident the week before the accident, and photographs taken moments before the Fang collapsed show that the climb had a cone base approximately 25 feet wide and that the column itself was six feet wide at its thinnest and eight to 10 feet at its widest. The ice appeared chandeliered, but with a continuous solid section up the middle. A climber who had seen the Fang earlier reports that it had fractured all the way across just below where the main column attaches to the rock, about 100 feet up, and that the Fang often fractures this way, but heals and is climbed in this condition. The photos (withheld at the request of family members) also show that the climber was cautious, placing a screw every body length.
According to one of his partners, the injured climber had waited 15 years to attempt the Fang, and had put in 60 days of ice climbing this season alone in preparation. He was a good judge of conditions. Another partner, Mary Harlan, characterized him as a conservative climber who always wears his helmet, even on sport climbs and had an impeccable safety record.
Beaupre told Rock and Ice that the climber had taken a long rest at a stance 15 feet up, and discussed the conditions with his belayer. I may back down on this, he said.
Ice is notoriously unpredictable, and sometimes pillars simply fall down. Almost any climber who has participated in the sport for a few seasons has stories about ice climbs shearing off, or showing up only to find that a climb has disappeared. In short, ice climbing is dangerous. Any climber who ropes up for freestanding pillar like the Fang, which has fallen down early winter before, is rolling the dice.
It is possible to take steps to make ice climbing safer, keeping in mind that ice will never be made entirely safe. In this case, the pillar, though solid in the middle, was otherwise chandeliered, one sign of ice that isn't fully bonded. Though other climbers safely made ascents in these conditions, the climb would have likely been stronger once the pillar had filled in more and the chandeliers bonded. The top fracture was another indication of instability, although, as reported above, this is not an unusual condition for the Fang.
Educate yourself on conditions. Monitor local ice climbing websites. Watch the temperature. Warm days will cause the ice to melt, but very cold temperatures are problematic too. Extremes in temperature either way can make the ice less stable. On cold days the ice doesn't displace the force as well, but will often become brittle and plate out.
Stay out of drip lines and avoid areas where chunks of ice are embedded in the snow. When belaying or watching, move out of the fall line, and always wear your helmet.

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Border Patrol has lots of agents _ in wrong places
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The downcast faces on computer screens are 1,500 miles away at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas: a 20-year old Honduran woman arrested rafting across the Rio Grande and a 23-year-old man caught under similar circumstances.
Four agents wearing headsets reel through a list of personal questions, spending up to an hour on each adult and even longer on children. On an average day, hundreds of migrants are questioned on camera by agents in San Diego and other stations on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The long-distance interviews — introduced last year in El Paso, Texas, and extended to California — are a response to the dramatic increase of Central Americans crossing the border in Texas that also has flooded immigration facilities with hundreds of women and children. The Border Patrol does not have the staff to process all the immigrants crossing in the Rio Grande Valley, but faraway colleagues have time to spare.
The remote video processing reveals a perpetual predicament that has long bedeviled the Border Patrol. Many agents wind up stationed in places where crossing activity is slowest because the Border Patrol struggles to keep up with constantly shifting migration patterns.
One example of the staffing mismatch: the roughly 2,500 agents in the San Diego sector arrested 97 immigrants illegally crossing the border on June 14, according to an internal document reviewed by The Associated Press. On the same day, the roughly 3,200 agents in the Rio Grande Valley made 1,422 arrests.
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley and for new powers to deal with returning unaccompanied children, a White House official said Saturday. A letter will be sent to Congress on Monday, said the official who was not authorized to speak by name and discussed the requests on condition of anonymity. The exact amount and how it will be spent will come after Congress returns from recess on July 7. Whether any funds will go toward border staffing is unknown.
In San Diego, the video processing is a welcome change of pace. Arrests are at 45-year lows and many agents go entire shifts without finding anyone. Cesar Rodriguez, who joined the Border Patrol in 2010, said eight hours fly by since he gave up his assignment watching a stretch of scrub-covered hills east of San Diego and took on a new assignment to process the immigrants via video.
"If there's nothing going on, what are you going to do? You're just staring at the fence," Rodriguez said in his new office, whose parking lot offers sweeping views of hillside homes in Tijuana, Mexico.
A few feet away, Victor Nunez says he interviewed a woman carrying a 4-month-old child and spent his last shift working on a group of 93 people that crossed the Rio Grande at once. Such activity was unheard of on his overnight shift patrolling the quiet mountains near San Diego.
"I feel like we're helping out our agents," said Nunez, who joined the Border Patrol in 2011. "It's a big problem going on there."
The McAllen station is designed to hold a few hundred people, but often teems with more than 1,000 who spill into hallways and outside. Migrants have been sent to stations in quieter parts of Texas, and they were overwhelmed. Overcrowding at the Laredo station prompted a visit from the fire marshal last month.
The shift to the Rio Grande Valley is part of a long-running trend where immigrants and smugglers change crossing locations faster than the government responds.
San Diego was the hot spot until the mid-1990s, when 1,000 agents were added there. After traffic moved to Arizona, staffing in Tucson ballooned under President George W. Bush, who doubled the Border Patrol close to its current size of more than 21,000 agents.
Some warn against bulking up in South Texas because smuggling routes will inevitably change along the 1,954-mile border.
"They don't want to transfer a mass amount of agents and open a gap somewhere else where we have control," said David Aguilar, the Border Patrol chief from 2004 to 2010.
Forced transfers must be negotiated with the National Border Patrol Council, the union which represents agents, and have not happened on a large scale.
The Border Patrol can move agents for 35 days — longer by mutual agreement — but those temporary assignments are expensive. More than 100 agents were sent to Rio Grande Valley this spring for short stays.
Voluntary transfers were an option but have not been used widely in South Texas. The Border Patrol began a campaign about 10 years ago, partly aimed at boosting morale, to offer more transfers if agents moved themselves. And, as agents quit or retire, the vast majority of new hires who replace them are now assigned to Rio Grande Valley.
The Border Patrol introduced video processing in El Paso in April 2013 to address the surge in Rio Grande Valley, where most border crossers are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and many are unaccompanied children. It expanded the processing to El Centro, California, in March, and to San Diego last month.
Between 230 and 500 people have been processed by video each day since it was introduced last year, but lack of detention space in Rio Grande Valley recently prompted authorities to fly migrants to El Paso and Arizona for processing, said Jackie Wasiluk, a spokeswoman for the Border Patrol's parent agency, Customs and Border Protection. The agency said Friday that it will also fly migrants to California for processing.
Costs are not an issue with video processing. Headsets and cameras are $70 apiece, and it's a small sacrifice to supervisors.
Agents use a long questionnaire that aims to establish identity — where they lived, where they went to school, where they went to church. Most migrants don't have identification, so U.S. authorities must convince consulates to issue passports. Otherwise, they can't be deported.
Throughout their shifts, agents trade instant messages with counterparts in Rio Grande Valley.
"If you have time, can you adjust the camera? It was too high. Ready for another case if you have one," typed Jake Garcia, a San Diego agent for five years.
His counterpart was talking to a group of migrants. Garcia swirled his chair for something rare in his new role: He took a break.
Associated Press writer Christopher Sherman in McAllen, Texas, contributed to this report.


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Dislocated Shoulder
The shoulder joint is the body's most mobile joint. It can turn in many directions. But, this advantage also makes the shoulder an easy joint to dislocate. A partial dislocation (subluxation) means the head of the upper arm bone (humerus) is partially out of the socket (glenoid). A complete dislocation means it is all the way out of the socket. Both partial and complete dislocation cause pain and unsteadiness in the shoulder.
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Shoulder Instability
A partial dislocation (subluxation) means the head of the upper arm bone (humerus) is partially out of the socket (glenoid). A complete dislocation means it is all the way out of the socket. Both partial and complete dislocation cause pain and unsteadiness in the shoulder.
Symptoms to look for include: swelling, numbness, weakness, bruising.
Sometimes dislocation may tear ligaments or tendons in the shoulder or damage nerves. The shoulder joint can dislocate forward, backward, or downward. A common type of shoulder dislocation is when the shoulder slips forward (anterior instability). This means the upper arm bone moved forward and down out of its joint. It may happen when the arm is put in a throwing position.
The muscles may have spasms from the disruption, and this can make it hurt more. When the shoulder dislocates time and again, there is shoulder instability. The doctor will examine the shoulder and may order an X-ray. It is important that the doctor know how the dislocation happened and whether the shoulder had ever been dislocated before.
The doctor will place the ball of the upper arm bone (humerus) back into the joint socket. This process is called closed reduction. Severe pain stops almost immediately once the shoulder joint is back in place.
Your doctor may immobilize the shoulder in a sling or other device for several weeks following treatment. Plenty of rest is needed. The sore area can be iced 3 to 4 times a day. After the pain and swelling go down, the doctor will prescribe rehabilitation exercises for you. These help restore the shoulder's range of motion and strengthen the muscles. Rehabilitation may also help prevent dislocating the shoulder again in the future. Rehabilitation will begin with gentle muscle toning exercises. Later, weight training can be added. If shoulder dislocation becomes a chronic condition, a brace can sometimes help. However, if therapy and bracing fail, surgery may be needed to repair or tighten the torn or stretched ligaments that help hold the joint in place, particularly in young athletes.
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4000 Hz Tinnitus – Guide to Curing
4000 Hz Tinnitus
4000 Hz Tinnitus Tinnitus, the word for "ringing in the ears," occurs when the nerves that provide us with hearing lose their ability to transmit sound from the external environment to the inner ear. Sound waves travel through the hair cells on both sides of the auditory canal. These cells receive signals from all sorts of external sounds such as speech, music, crying, and other human voices. If the hearing mechanisms have been damaged or disabled somehow, then no sound waves make it past these damaged cells.
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What You Need to Know About Tinnitus
There are many different types of hearing loss. Sensorineural hearing loss commonly comes with tinnitus. Some researchers think that only subjective tinnitus can exist without some sort of physical damage to the hearing nerve. The underlying deafness might be due to:
Noise-induced hearing loss can also be unidirectional (one-sided) and usually makes patients lose hearing just around the frequency of the offending sound. This type of disorder is called conductive hearing loss. Patients suffering from this type of disorder have difficulty remembering information. For example, if a patient hears a phone ringing on a train, but hears nothing else, he may begin to worry that someone is being hurt. In this way, his brain is trying to take action, so he starts to memory function. This all depends upon his state of mind, which is affected by his anxiety levels.
There are many symptoms associated with tinnitus, but only a few are really serious. Generally, patients notice decreased hearing functions as indicated by the reduction in the quality of their audible signal. They also experience nausea, fatigue, dizziness, headaches, depression, and anxiety. These symptoms vary from person to person, but there is one common thing in most cases: the brain is trying to take care of its own problems. The auditory system is getting overloaded and it can not deal with all the information coming through.
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Hearing loss or tinnitus can be a symptom of an ear or sinus problem. Sometimes, the problem goes away by itself, other times it requires medical intervention. Tinnitus is often times a sign of an ear or sinus infection, which means you need to see your doctor as soon as you can. A bacterial infection in the ear can go away by itself, but if it doesn't and keeps coming back, it can cause hearing loss, which is why you need to get your doctor's advice right away.
Many people who suffer from a mental health issue, may also experience hearing loss. When a person has serious depression, he is at risk to low self-esteem. Low self-esteem and anxiety can lead to more social problems and depression, which can lead to more hearing loss. If a person continues to have ongoing issues with depression and anxiety, his hearing will continue to deteriorate.
The Initial Causes 4000 Hz Tinnitus
There are many causes of hearing loss. These include loss of hair cells (the ganas nerve in the inner ear sends messages to the brain), damage done to the brain stem due to disease or an infection, and a buildup of wax in the ears. Any combination of these can cause the brain to send wrong signals to the ears causing them to lose hearing. Oftentimes, there is no way to know whether or not you are suffering from hearing loss without having your ears checked. The only way to make sure is to undergo a hearing test.
Many people believe that they are going crazy or having a break out when they have a constant ringing, buzzing, screaming, or hissing sound in their ears. They think it is going to come and go. But, the truth is that it can take weeks or even months to go away depending on the underlying medical condition causing it. Once you know for sure what is causing your hearing loss, you can find a good treatment to fix it so you can once again enjoy great quality hearing.
Tinnitus isn't actually a disorder in and of itself; it's more of a symptom for another underlying condition. In many instances, tinnitus simply is a sensory reaction in the inner ear and hearing system to damage to these systems. While tinnitus can be caused by hearing loss alone, there are about 200 other health conditions which can produce tinnitus as a result. This condition is different for each person, although common symptoms include high-pitched ringing, pulsing noises, or continuous clicking or whirring.
There are two types of tinnitus that you should be aware of: objective and subjective. Objective tinnitus occurs when a medical researcher can hear the sounds in your ears. Subjective tinnitus only comes from within the mind and is generally difficult to hear. Both types of tinnitus can be caused by a variety of factors, so it is important that you learn about the various causes of this condition so you can seek out the best treatment option for your specific situation.
The most common cause of tinnitus, both subjective and objective, is damage to the inner ear. This can result from a variety of events including head trauma, severe burns, or car accidents. With the loss of the hair cells that create the hearing ability, the inner ear becomes damaged, which can then lead to loss of balance or difficulty with hearing. Even though there is no actual damage to the nerves inside the ear, this condition is known as deafness without damage to the ear itself.
Damage to the brain is also one of the main reasons behind the loss of hearing ability with tinnitus. When the brain experiences hearing loss or damage, it may incorrectly interpret the loss as damage to the ears themselves. This interpretation causes the ringing and other associated sounds to occur.
There are two main types of deafness: conductive and sensorineural. Conductive deafness is usually inherited through the family. In this case, the hearing loss is caused by damage to the nerve that transfers the sound from the external environment to the inner ear. Sensorineural deafness, on the other hand, is caused by damage to the sensitive structures within the inner ear. These structures include the vestibular system, which is responsible for balance and movement control, as well as the cochlea, which provides the signal for the brain to translate the sound and produce a signal.
There are two main categories of treatments for tinnitus, objective and non Objective. Objective tinnitus treatments include changing the environment in which you live to reduce the noise. Non Objective tinnitus treatments include medicines that specifically treat disorders of the inner ear, pulsatile tinnitus, hypnosis, or biofeedback therapy.
While these Non Objective treatments have had varying levels of success, scientists at the Chicago School of Medicine uncovered what exactly triggers these hearing problems through a brain scan. And no, it's not loud noises or old age. Hearing loss and tinnitus are triggered by this deeply disturbing thing that's going on inside your brain at this very moment.
And now that we know this, we can protect ourselves without risky medication:
Just eat this for breakfast to regain your hearing in the evening.
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Final Thoughts
Tinnitus may seem like a frustrating issue; however, with enough focus and attention, you can learn how to stop the ringing in your ears. If you've tried all of the tips above and still suffer from tinnitus, you should immediately visit your doctor to make sure that there is no serious cause for your symptoms. Some conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, can cause ringing in the ears, so you should also rule those out as well.
There are many ways to treat your tinnitus; you just need to know what works best for you. In addition to treatment, you'll also want to make sure that you get plenty of sleep and exercise. You should also avoid any loud noises. If you follow these simple, everyday tips, you'll find that your tinnitus becomes less noticeable or stops all together.
{4000 Hz Tinnitus{ Ringing in the ears is a sign related to several forms of hearing loss. It can likewise be a symptom of various other illness. Ringing in the ears can additionally be a signs and symptom of stiffening of the center ear bones (otosclerosis). Ringing in the ears can be very mild in loudness and also just obvious in a peaceful room/bedtime or it can end up being exceptionally loud as well as irritating to the point where the victim hears nothing else. It can be existing every one of the time, can be intermittent, and/or pulsing.


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It's another busy day for John. After a day of classes and an exhausting soccer practice, he now has half an hour of free time to grab some dinner before play rehearsal. He orders a large pizza with pepperoni and extra cheese and gobbles it down with time to spare.
As he walks into the theater for rehearsal, John starts to feel nauseated and he has a burning feeling in the back of his throat. John can't understand what's going on — he felt fine just a few minutes ago.
John has indigestion, a common digestive problem. Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia (pronounced: dis-PEP-see-ah), is just another name for an upset stomach. Indigestion usually happens when people eat too much or too fast, or certain foods don't agree with them. It might happen more often if you smoke, drink alcohol, are stressed out, or don't get enough sleep.
Sometimes indigestion can be accompanied by heartburn. Despite its name though, heartburn actually has nothing to do with your heart. It's caused by stomach acid splashing up from the stomach and into the esophagus, the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. This is called esophageal reflux, and it usually leaves a sour or bitter taste in the mouth.
Indigestion and heartburn are common problems for people of all ages — hence all those commercials for heartburn and indigestion medicines on TV. Some of the medicines you see advertised are OK for teens, but some of them are meant for adults. So before you start taking any medication for heartburn or indigestion, talk to your doctor.
You may be wondering how indigestion occurs in the first place. There are many potential causes — often it's just because a person eats too much or eats too fast, as mentioned before. But sometimes it can be due to smoking, drinking alcohol, or certain stomach problems, like gastritis (stomach inflammation) or an ulcer.
If you have indigestion, you'll probably have one or more of these symptoms:
Usually, indigestion only happens once in a while, like after eating certain foods that don't agree with you. But you'll want to see the doctor if you get indigestion even when you're eating healthy foods, exercising, and getting enough sleep.
You may need to be examined or have stomach X-rays or other tests to make sure your indigestion is not a sign of another problem in your digestive tract. Depending on what the doctor finds, you might need to make changes in your diet or take medicine.
Be sure to tell your parent or talk to a doctor if these things happen in addition to your indigestion:
These can be signs of other problems, so be sure to talk to a doctor if you experience one or several of these symptoms.
Some people can eat anything and never get an upset stomach. But others are more sensitive to certain foods and find that some just don't agree with them. If you discover you have a problem with particular foods, it's best to limit them or skip them entirely.
Besides avoiding problem foods, try to eat a few smaller meals instead of one or two really big ones. Here are some other tips to prevent indigestion:
You might still get indigestion once in a while, even if you follow these tips. But as long as your indigestion doesn't go on for a long time or is not excessively painful, it's probably nothing out of the ordinary.


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Travel and Adventure: Losing sight in Cancun with a Sense Adventure Tour
By Fyllis Hockman
Creators Syndicate
When I was first blindfolded, I felt disoriented and out of control. But our Mayan guide propelled me back into the moment by explaining that when our sight — our main sense in relating to the world around us — is cut off, the other senses are expanded. Thus began our Sense Adventure Tour, part of a larger eco-oriented nature park and sustainable tourism program at the Hacienda Tres Rios Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
As part of this tour I initially sensed the jungle rather than saw it.
Nothing can hurt you, all of us in my group were reassured. Just trust in yourself and follow your senses. Do not talk, please — communicate only with yourself. And become one with the universe.
First came the sounds. Were they cymbals? Triangles? Were they supposed to mean something? But I didn't have time to ponder before the next sensory assault — this time different textures caressing my feet as we proceeded blindfolded and barefoot, one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of us. From gravel to burlap, wooden slats to smooth slate to soft rug, we moved about our mini-jungle over an hour's time.
Then a baby laughed — or was it crying — followed by a clap of thunder. Then the sounds stopped being a focus and just began to wash over me, as did the bucket of pebbles dumped on my head. I felt like I was being buried. Was that it? Were the baby's cries rebirth? I had no idea.
The only time the blindfold was removed was within a tent with constellations of stars twinkling overhead — the universe we're supposed to feel a part of. Blindfold back in place, the avalanche of sensory overload continued — smells, textures, tastes, sounds. All of the senses were challenged, often in conjunction with one another, sometimes competing, sometimes complementary. Should I pay attention to the Native American chants or focus on the pebbles poured over my body or the cinnamon under my nose or just give in to the swaying of my body being encouraged by the guides?
The guides periodically placed our hands on our hearts, reminding us to breathe (a recurring theme) and listen to our heartbeats since this is what keeps us alive. Feel the universe living and moving inside you.
More sounds, this time a beating drum of ever-increasing tempo. Our guides moved various body parts where they wanted them, hands in front one moment to smell a splash of oil then waving about another time to the rhythm of the beat. Now chanting once again — feel small seeds flowing through my fingers, taste a sliver of chocolate melt upon my tongue, gravel this time beneath my feet. I'm somewhat annoyed with myself for thinking I'm pretty sure I'm going to find a bunch of pebbles in my underwear later that night. I refocus and hear the semblance of a heartbeat in the background. I'm not sure whether it's mine or theirs.
Then I felt the coldness of a small candle holder in one hand and heat generated by it as my other hand passed over it. The transient thought of how do they do that passed through only to be overshadowed by the incongruous reality itself. And shortly thereafter, I was once again moving to the sounds — I lost track of what they were — but I knew I was simulating the flying motions of a bird. Even though I had no idea what ritual I was taking part in, I felt a sense of belonging, that I was somehow connected to something that was important in some past culture.
I didn't know how it was done, but that was not important. I breathed in, I exhaled, I moved my arms and swayed my body. I was alone yet part of a larger whole, and it all felt right. Again my hands were placed on my heart. When they were not floating in air or touching my heart, they were on the shoulder of the person in front of me, traversing about our own private world, wondering what tactile surprise lay ahead.
Sounds again — fire, thunder, rain, birds, planes and wind — and of course the repetitive chanting, but with maracas in hand now, I could share in the experience directly. And yes, this was my dance — with that of the others — whoever the others might be. Everyone moved to their own rhythms, somehow in concert with each other, which I could feel even through the blindfold.
I was given a smooth stone with which I was told to caress my face, and that was supplemented by a more rigid, scraggly conch shell which I could easily identify. I couldn't resist holding it to my ear to try to hear the ocean, but then I realized the sound of crashing waves was coming from behind me. Now I felt the rainwater I had only heard before, icy cold and down my back. It was the only time I heard collective sounds of first shock and then guffaws from my compatriots.
Thunder abounded, and then the raindrops flowed, followed by a windstorm. I knew it was all being manufactured, but I didn't care because it felt real. Now I was asked to clang the smooth stone and the rugged conch shell together to make some native music; then again our hands were returned to our hearts. I started to welcome the gesture as a way of coming home and feeling grounded.
I followed all the instructions as the guides moved my body, arms and hands in different directions. I knew I had the choice to resist and ask why or acquiesce and say why not? I felt both on a personal journey and part of a larger connection, as though I were attuned to some greater Mayan or Native American or whatever other culture I sensed was behind it. I felt connected with the elements, with nature.
"And so nature comes to say to us the earth is my body, the water is my blood, the air is my breath, the fire is my spirit," said our guide as we neared the end. "In front of you is a mirror. See your reflection and know that somewhere inside you, if you have a question, you will find an answer. All the universe is inside you."
As I removed my blindfold and gazed upon my reflection in the cenote pool in front of me, I was not sure I felt one with the universe, but I certainly felt I had experienced a very unique part of it in a magical hour's time.
For more information, visit www.haciendatresrios.com/riviera-maya/nature-park/nature-park-activities, where you will find not only the Sense Adventure but a number of other unusual activities such as snorkeling and kayaking in a cenote, an Xtreme Adventure tour, Segway rides and Hobie Cat outings, along with an introductory tour of the many trend-setting sustainable tourism aspects of the hotel.
Hacienda Tres Rios was constructed on areas of low environmental value with the least adverse impact. They employ water-saving techniques that don't sacrifice pressure, rooms that are intelligently designed to be both high-tech and high-comfort but low-impact, with 120 varieties of native plants in the park that do not require much in the way of water, fertilizer or pesticides. It has recently been named to TripAdvisor's 2014 list of the Top 25 Resorts for Families.


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The North Camp
This is the original camp that Christophe and Hedwige Boesch built in the late 1970s to study the behaviour of the chimpanzees. It was home to their family for more than 10 years and the base for many extraordinary observations. These days the North Camp constitutes the hygiene barrier between the chimps and the outer world. In the North Camp every visitor to the Tai chimpanzees needs to go through a five day long quarantine before the researcher continues to one of the research camps.
The Barrage
Being away 10 minutes by foot to the north from the North Camp, the Barrage had been established to serve as a meteorological station. During the early 1980s the camp became the base for the field assistants working with the Boeschs in the forest. These days the Barrage is the research camp for everybody working with the North group and our group of mangabeys.
The North group was the first community that Christophe Boesch and his wife Hedwige started to habituate in 1979. It took the Boeschs almost ten years to gain the trust of all community members. The community became famous due to their use of stone hammers and the extraordinary level of collaboration during group hunts on colobus monkeys.
The mangabey group is not yet habituated. We started last in November 2012 to follow the monkeys for out-group comparisons on chimpanzee cognition.
The South Camp
Situated in the forest without any direct connection to a mud road that can be driven by a car, the South camp is reached only on foot (30 min from the Station CRE or 75 min from the North camp). In the 1980s the South camp became the base for the habituation of the second community of chimpanzees habituated in Taï, the South community. Our days the camp has expanded to be our largest camp and serves as the research camp for the South community and the geographic center of TCP.
When the habituation process started with the South group, hopes were high that the South group chimps were the neighbours to the North group. After several years into the habituation, however, in the early 1990s, it became clear that there was a community located in the between North and South group. The South group reached a lot of fame when they featured in the Disney Nature film 'Chimpanzee', which was filmed with the South camp as the base for the filming crew.
The Middle group, located in between South and North group, was habituated in the late 1990s, but is not followed on daily bases anymore.
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The most remote of our camps, the East camp is 90 min walking distance from the South camp. Built just a few years ago, the East camp is home to our research team for the East group.
Being the latest addition to the Taï family, the East group has taken a steep career. Fully habituated since 2008, the East group includes the star of the Disney Nature movie 'Chimpanzee', named Freddy, and some of the other actors.
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After the survey of the Pan African Program in 2012 / 2013 it became clear that North-east group is big and moving further into our research area. Therefore TCP took over the temporary camp of the Pan Af and build a tented camp as a base for the habituation. North-East camp is now a camp providing sleeping possibilities for 6 people and some electricity.


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Almost seven and a half years ago The Daily Post opened its virtual doors to the WordPress.com blogging community. It's been an incredible ride, and incredible rides, too, sometimes come to an end. As of the end of this month (and 2,000 Daily Prompts, 380 Photo Challenges, 260 Community Pools, and 100 First Fridays later), we will no longer publish new posts, prompts, or challenges on this site.
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Right and left blocs split evenly in Israeli elections final vote tally
Published January 23, 2013
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's final election results show that the right-wing and left-wing blocs are evenly split.
The Likud Party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a combined campaign with Avidgor Liberman's right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, took 31 seats in the 19th Knesset, down from the 42 seats now held by the two parties, according to results released on the morning of Jan. 23.
The new center-left Yesh Atid finished a surprising second. The party, which is led by the former television personality Yair Lapid, son of former head of the secular Shinu Party Tommy Lapid, ran a low-key campaign that garnered it 19 seats.
The right-wing bloc finished the poll with 60 votes, to the left-wing bloc, including the 12 votes that went to Arab parties, also with 60 votes.
Although exit polls showed the Kadima Party, which won the most votes in the 2009 elections with 28 when it was led by Tzipi Livni, as not breaking the 2 percent threshold, the final tally gave 2 seats to the party.
Other parties in the 19th Knesset are: Labor with 15 seats; the Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party with 11 seats, the same as in the previous government; the Jewish Home Party led by Naftali Bennett with 11 seat, up from 3 in the last Knesset; the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party with 7 seats; 6 seats for the new Hatnuah Party led by former opposition leader Tzipi Livni; the left-wing Meretz Party with 6 seats; the United Arab List-Taal Party with 5 seats; the Arab-Jewish Hadash Party with 4 seats; and the Arab-Israeli Balad Party with 3 votes.
Some 66.6 percent, or 3.767 million, of Israel's 5,656,705 eligible voters turned out to vote, according to the Central Elections Committee. The number of voters in Jan. 22's election was the highest since 1999, though turnout was down significantly among Arab voters.
The election results will not be certified until next week. Ballots cast by soldiers in the field, hospital patients, prisoners and overseas government personnel, among other special double-envelope ballots, have not yet been counted.
"I am proud to be your prime minister and I thank you for giving me the opportunity, for the third time, to lead the State of Israel," Netanyahu told supporters at his campaign headquarters shortly after midnight. "It is a great honor, but it is also a great responsibility. It is an opportunity to make changes that the citizens of Israel wish upon themselves and that will serve all the citizens of Israel. I intend on making those changes by forming the broadest coalition possible, and I have begun working toward that tonight."
"A heavy responsibility has been placed on our shoulders tonight," Lapid told his supports, in a speech delivered at the same time as Netanyahu and shown on a split screen on the major Israeli networks. "I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right, so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel," Lapid said.
Israeli President Shimon Peres will consult with party leaders and ask them who they would recommend to form the next government. Peres then will choose the party leader most likely to be able to form a successful coalition government — it is expected to be Netanyahu — who then has up to 42 days to present his government for a vote of confidence.
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It's that time of year – Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, one holiday tumbling right after another. It is an exciting time for children but often a time of stress for parents who have the responsibility of making it all happen. It can take us by surprise that joyous holidays we anticipate with pleasure may also bring with them conflicting emotions.
Each holiday brings with it particular memories for different people. Each family has its own traditions and ways of observing holidays. Individuals grow up in different families where one holiday may have been given more significant observance than another. As parents, we all have memories of what these holidays were like – how they were observed when we were children.
We may not realize the degree to which the holiday itself becomes identified with the particular way it was observed in our own families when we were growing up. We also may not realize that our memories are formed by the experience of our childhood selves seen through the eyes of the children we were and are colored accordingly. As a result, celebrations may feel disappointing when the holidays these days seem not to live up to those childhood memories.
Memories of when we were children are also of a time when we were taken care of and provided for by our own parents. Holidays meant vacation from school and presents rather than the added responsibility and work they mean for us now as parents ourselves. We are expected to be grown-ups, while perhaps still wanting the remembered pleasures of childhood. A sense of loss may come from the wish, or hope that we will be recreating everything as it was in the best sense, and the discovery that our fantasy is not – cannot – be realized.
Celebrations with extended family can also bring with them another aspect of childhood memories and experiences. Individuals may slip back into old family roles with old rivalries or resentments that we thought had been left behind. When holidays involve a visit to grandparents and a return to childhood homes, it is easy for brothers and sisters to fall into childhood patterns of sibling rivalry. On the other hand, multi-generational celebrations may include new additions to the family through marriages and births, creating new relationships that can be free of repeating old history.
When a couple unites to create a new family, each brings memories and life experiences that shape their expectations about the meaning of holidays and how they are to be observed. It can be challenging to include or combine aspects of observance that are significant to each partner. The same may be true of decisions about which members of extended families are to be included. Interfaith couples have their own set of challenges in agreeing on which religious observances are to be included in observing particular holidays.
We each bring stories with us from our childhood which we carry forward as parents and inform the experiences we wish to provide for our children. But as a new generation of parents, we need to create our own new stories, combining older values with new realities in a way that works for each individual family. Holidays tend to pull us back to old stories that can be pleasurable to revisit if we don't get lost in the retelling.
Whether the holidays bring a combining of faiths, of generations, of sibling, or of our childhood memories with our adult selves, being aware of our competing emotions may help us find the joys of the holiday in our own special observances.
Happy Holidays to All!


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I'm reposting this article written by Rob Brendle because I find it to be both timely and accurate. See original article here.
Where was God in the Aurora Shooting?
By Rob Brendle, Special to CNN
I held her hand as she died.
Her family had come to a church where I was pastoring that morning, a routine Sunday. A thousand things would never have crossed their minds as they drove through Colorado Springs toward New Life Church's enormous concrete worship center – including the prospect of being assaulted in their minivan by a young man with a high-powered rifle.
Later that day, we were all at a local hospital. The girl whose hand I held, Rachel, had already lost a sister at the scene. Her father was down the hall in critical condition and her mother was coming undone in the waiting room, but she didn't know any of it. Rachel lay unconscious for a couple of hours more in the ICU.
And then she died. Her family had come to church together that morning, and by nightfall they were shattered.
That was almost five years ago.
The movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado shook me and the rest of the nation. Reading about the young and unsuspecting victims took me back to the dying girl in the ICU who had come to my church that day in 2007, in a an incident that left the two girls dead and injured several others. Back to the Columbine massacre a decade earlier that horrified the world and traumatized Colorado. And back to the aching questions that accompanied those previous incidents: Why did this happen? Where was God in all of it? How could a loving God allow this?
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We pastors face the unenviable task of being asked to answer for God. Most people ask the big questions in times of irresolution, times when satisfying answers are scarce.
Let's be clear: there are no easy answers to the deepest questions of suffering. Libraries overflow with the volumes that have been written to address these questions. Centuries of philosophers, pundits and preachers have reflected on the existence of evil, the meaning of pain and the role of God in suffering.
I won't begin to recount all of their ruminations here. But here's what I think.
God is the author of life and the originator of good. He distinguished humankind from among his creation with faculties like reason, emotion, dexterity and choice. Scripture teaches that God made people in his image. Set apart from all the rest of his creatures, we were endowed with the capacity to know our Creator and ennobled with the ability to choose him. So singularly did God love humans that he gave us this ultimate gift.
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The capacity to choose God and goodness came with the commensurate ability to choose evil. Is it loving to force his creation to follow his order, or to teach it and leave the creature to choose? It would seem that God came to the same conclusion that America's founders did many millennia later: compulsory virtue is no virtue at all.
But Scripture also teaches that God is totally in control. He is all-powerful and all-knowing and he is willing and able to intervene in human events. So there is a gap between human choice and divine foreknowledge, a gap that transcends understanding and that helps define God in my mind.
The debate over this theological tension has persisted for centuries, and I don't aim to settle it here. Let me suggest simply that God, in his sovereignty, has chosen to make our decisions meaningful. Consequently, much of what happens on earth neither conforms to nor results from his preference. There are at least four influences on human events: God's will, to be sure; but also the will of Satan, our adversary; peoples' choices, for better or for worse; and natural law (gravity, collision, combustion, and the like).
It is difficult to know which force causes the circumstances that devastate us. But it is enough to know that God need not be responsible for them.
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Much of the internal gridlock around tragedy is because suffering is foreign to us. This foreignness is peculiarly Western and modern. Most of the world, for most of the world's history, has known tragedy and trauma in abundance.
You don't get nearly the same consternation in Burundi or Burma, because suffering is normal to them. God and hard times coexist intuitively there. For us, though, God has become Anesthetist-in-Chief. To believe in him is to be excused from bad things. He is our panacea for the woes of life.
The God of the Bible promises no exemption from suffering. In fact, he all but promises suffering. He does not suggest that his followers won't go through fire, but rather that we won't burn up. Mostly he promises to be there with us, to comfort and encourage us and renew our strength. God grieves with us, and he grows us into good people in the process.
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Where was God in Aurora? He was on the lawn in front of the Civic Building as thousands gathered in solidarity, hope, and love at a packed prayer vigil last Sunday. He was in University Hospital as neurosurgeons groped for synonyms for miraculous.
He was in the outpouring of compassion at a victim's funeral and in the passionate call for unity from a resolute councilwoman and at the bedside vigil of a wounded victim's church community. Redemption has only begun in Aurora, and already God is everywhere. Their will be beauty once this story is written that overshadows and transcends the ashes.
Jesus started his ministry by declaring, "I am the light of the world," and ended it with "you are the light of the world."
What God our cities will see is what we show them. From the beginning, light has shone in the darkness – he ordered it that way. And the deeper the darkness, the brighter the light will appear. Where is God in Aurora? He is shining brightly from the hearts of his people.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rob Brendle.


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Mascots were coming out of the woodwork tonight at Nationals Park as the Pittsburgh Pirates rolled into town for a 4-game series. Just as they did last season, the Pirates brought the giant racing pierogies from PNC Park's Great Pierogie Race.
The racing pierogies joined tonight's 4th-inning presidents race and nearly stole the victory from the Nationals' own presidents; but with Cheese Chester and Oliver Onion in the lead, Teddy's nemesis That Cat appeared and clotheslined them both, allowing Abe Lincoln to take the victory.
Video courtesy of Charles Diaz


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The Washington Nationals have once again released a coupon code "for Teddy's friends": Order online at Nationals.com using Coupon Code "TEDDY" and get half-price tickets in select seating sections for this week's 4-game series vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The coupon code is valid only for online orders and may be used to get outfield box seats, outfield corner, or mezzanine seats for $14.00 to $17.00 each.
Note also that $5.00 walk-up grandstand tickets have been readily available at the Nationals Park box office during this homestand. In my opinion they are the best entertainment value in DC. Grandstand seats are available before the game at the Nationals ticket office outside the Center Field Gate.


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This old argument is getting another airing among the internet climate change contrarian/denier ghetto. Briefly it claims that humans have nothing to do with current climate change – it's all caused by the sun! Specifically the influence of cosmic rays originating from the sun on formation of clouds in the atmosphere.
Of course things are never that simple – but that doesn't stop those wishing to justify a preconceived position. And the sudden new evidence which is being touted arises from a recent paper from CERN Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation published in Nature. The denier ghetto has come out with headlines like New CERN "CLOUD" Study Makes the Al Gore Climate Change Forecasts Obsolete! Or locally the NZ climate change denier blog Climate Conversation asserts CLOUD proves cosmic ray link!
The reasearch findings in no way justifies these headlines. And even veteran denier Richard Treadgold at Climate Conversations has backed away to some extent from his headline. Nevertheless it ahs him demanding that New Zealand review its Emmisions Trading Scheme and he thinks that "warmists" are responding by "rushing to the exits"!
Yeah, right!
What are the research findings?
Potholer54 has produced a nice video summary of the facts around this research Are cosmic rays causing global warming? It's well worth watching
Another brief video, starring Jasper Kirkby the lead scientists in this work, also provides more information on this work Kirkby on Cosmic Rays
As Kirkby points out the work is only the first step in this research and says nothing about the influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation. This initial work really only reports the influence of chemicals and cosmic rays on nucleation of chemical particles which may eventually lead to some cloud formation.
As for headlines like CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised' Kirkby points out we are a long way from that – at least ten years before the influence on models can even be considered.
It's certainly interesting research, but only one step in considering climatic effects. We still have a long way to go to understand how clouds and other aerosols influence climate change.
And it is the nature of research that we should be ready for all sorts of tangential leads produced. For example, perhaps this research may in the end say more about the influence of human activities on climate through the emission of all sorts of chemicals not yet considered and their role in cosmic ray induced particulate formation in the atmosphere.
Thanks to Richard Christie and Cedric Katesby for videos.
See also: For a more detailed discussion of Kirkby's research watch this video of one of his lectures (65 min): Jasper Kirkby: The CLOUD experiment at CERN.


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Amazon's Elastic Block Store ("EBS") service, an underpinning component of Amazon's extremely popular Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"), experienced a substantial service interruption this afternoon. Amazon EC2 has become such a ubiquitous feature in the cloud computing landscape that it's difficult to throw a rock without hitting a large company with a public Web offering that uses it. So today's service interruption bit deeply: among the sites knocked partially or totally offline were reddit, Imgur, and developer favorite Heroku.
EC2 is an "infrastructure as a service" offering, quickly providing the computing and network bandwidth necessary to host websites and Web applications of varying sizes (hence the "elastic" part—they can provide as little or as much cloud power as you're willing to pay for). Destinations like reddit use it to host portions of their sites because Amazon can provide infrastructure as a manageable, measurable, forecast-able expense, and can grow or shrink as dictated by demand or budget. Hosting your website on EC2 is a quick and often inexpensive way to get yourself into "the cloud."
EBS works in concert with EC2 by providing chunks of storage space which can be used by EC2. If your website needs a lot of storage, a quick way to make that happen is to add EBS space, which is a lot like adding more hard drives to your EC2 cloud instance (except that EBS chunks are of course not hard drives, and they carry extra features like snapshotting and cloning).
EC2 and EBS, as part of the Amazon Web Services suite, are designed with substantial amounts of redundancy and failover capability. In addition to having local redundancy, the services are divided up into partitions called "Availability Zones," and large customers can spread their EC2 instances out across multiple zones.
Today's service disruption was centered on one of the USA's East Coast EBS availability zones, and was acknowledged by Amazon just before 1:00pm CDT on its Web Services status page. reddit became unavailable for many immediately after, followed by several other sites. The problems seem to have mostly subsided and Amazon is currently advising customers to manually relocate their EC2 workloads outside of the affected availability zone if they continue to experience slow performance.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time Amazon's distributed cloud has run into Internet-crippling issues. There was a much more serious EC2 outage in April 2011, which again stemmed from EBS-related issues. These kinds of outages are a jarring reminder of the true nature of "the cloud"—it's still just servers in data centers. The basic concept of cloud computing is to abstract the annoying physicality of things away from the user, but it's not turtles all the way down. The service is only as available as the underlying technologies make it.
In this case, in spite of the lessons learned from last year's outage, an EBS failure has again impacted a significant number of major websites, and it would appear that the automated procedures built into EC2 still do not protect against some kinds of failures. The takeaway for anyone considering cloud hosting for your website or application is that there is no magic pill, and just because something is "in the cloud" doesn't mean it can't come crashing down to earth when there are problems.


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A girl spends a day with her father who has returned from World War II
Crow Call. By Lois Lowry. Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Scholastic, 32 pp., $16.99. Ages: School Library Journal recommends for grades K-4.
By Janice Harayda
Two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry can write what she pleases at this stage of her career, and this fact may help explain her tepid first picture book. Crow Call tells the story of a pigtailed girl whose father, just back from World War II, takes her along when he sets out to kill crows that are eating the crops on nearby Pennsylvania farmlands.
Liz feels happy, if shy, about spending time with someone who "has been gone for so long." But she worries about the crows, and her father, sensing this, takes her home without shooting any – a change of heart that causes the plot to sputter out in the last pages. Liz also tells her story through slightly affected first-person, present-tense narration. You don't fully believe she would have all of her thoughts, which include self-conscious lines like "our words seem etched and breakable on the brittle stillness."
Lowry says in an afterword that the events of Crow Call happened to her and her father in 1945, and her publisher casts the story as an allegory that "shows how, like the birds gathering above, the relationship between the girl and her father is graced with the chance to fly." Maybe so. But the text has much less loft than the art by Bagram Ibatoulline in the color palette and social-realist style of Christina's World, which his fellow Pennsylvanian Andrew Wyeth painted three years after the events that inspired Crow Call took place. His lovely pictures are the saving grace of a book that, you sense, Lowry needed to write more than children need to read.
Best line/picture: A picture of Liz's father stretching his neck out, imitating a giraffe, as she tries to stifle a laugh.
Worst line/picture: The last line: "Then I put it into the pocket of my shirt and reach over, out of my enormous cuff, and take my father's hand." This line isn't strong or credible enough for its position in the book. Lizzie and her father have spent quite a bit of time alone together by the time she takes his hand, and you don't believe she wouldn't have done so before then.
Published: October 2009
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